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Thanks so much for photos.
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actually she's already engaged. it's just that tomorrow will be the traditional japanese engagement ceremony. where the emperor and empress meet the groom's mother. (his father is deceased)
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Masako to attend Sayako's Betrothal Ceremony
Despite having dropped out of at least one official engagement in recent weeks, it appears Crown Princess Masako will be attending the engagement ceremony of sister-in-law Princess Sayako on Saturday.
The Imperial Household has confirmed that Masako wishes to attend the ceremonial exchange of pre-wedding gifts, called Nosai no Gi, which is in honour of Sayako's betrothal to government employee Yoshiki Kuroda.
The private court affair, a formal sealing of the engagement, will see the groom's mother – his father is deceased – meet Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko. Though the empress skipped some of her official duties this week due to a fatigue-related skin virus, she is set to attend her only daughter's ceremony.
In late Feburary, it was the empress' daughter-in-law Masako who made headlines for health reasons. The 41-year-old, who has been struggling with emotional difficulties for over a year, cancelled a visit to Special Olympics Winter Games in Nagano at the last minute. The Imperial Household Agency confirmed that ill health was the reason for her cancellation, describing the royal's condition as "inappropriate" for attendance.
Masako has been recovering from an "adjustment disorder" brought on by the demands of her role, particularly the pressure to produce a male heir. Controversy over changing Imperial House Law in order to allow female members to ascend to the throne looks set to be resolved soon, however, as a government panel is expected to decide on the matter later this year.
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Masako to attend Sayako's Betrothal Ceremony
Despite having dropped out of at least one official engagement in recent weeks, it appears Crown Princess Masako will be attending the engagement ceremony of sister-in-law Princess Sayako on Saturday.
The Imperial Household has confirmed that Masako wishes to attend the ceremonial exchange of pre-wedding gifts, called Nosai no Gi, which is in honour of Sayako's betrothal to government employee Yoshiki Kuroda.
The private court affair, a formal sealing of the engagement, will see the groom's mother – his father is deceased – meet Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko. Though the empress skipped some of her official duties this week due to a fatigue-related skin virus, she is set to attend her only daughter's ceremony.
In late Feburary, it was the empress' daughter-in-law Masako who made headlines for health reasons. The 41-year-old, who has been struggling with emotional difficulties for over a year, cancelled a visit to Special Olympics Winter Games in Nagano at the last minute. The Imperial Household Agency confirmed that ill health was the reason for her cancellation, describing the royal's condition as "inappropriate" for attendance.
Masako has been recovering from an "adjustment disorder" brought on by the demands of her role, particularly the pressure to produce a male heir. Controversy over changing Imperial House Law in order to allow female members to ascend to the throne looks set to be resolved soon, however, as a government panel is expected to decide on the matter later this year.
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It's great.We will have lots of photos today.Will there be any Banquet or Party in honor of it?
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Princess Sayako formally engaged to Kuroda in traditional rite
Princess Sayako, Emperor Akihito's only daughter, was formally engaged to Yoshiki Kuroda, an employee with the Tokyo metropolitan government, in a traditional rite of betrothal at the Imperial Palace on Saturday. The princess, 35, popularly known as Princess Nori, and Kuroda, 39, are expected to be married sometime after the summer following a series of court rites, according to the Imperial Household Agency.
The special rite, called "Nosai no Gi" in Japanese, is the first in the series. In the privately held ceremony at the Imperial Residence, a messenger from Kuroda formally conveyed Kuroda's proposal to marry Princess Sayako and offered traditional engagement gifts of two fresh sea breams, three bottles of sake and two sets of silk, the agency said. Sea breams are given as gifts in Japan to mark auspicious events.
The couple became formally engaged when Grand Steward Toshio Yuasa of the Imperial Household told the messenger that the princess and her parents accepted the offer of marriage.
Kuroda's cousin, Naoyuki, 53, took the role as messenger.
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The imperial family will also send its messenger to Kuroda's home in Tokyo
bearing another set of gifts, including two fresh sea breams, three bottles of sake and two sets of wool, while Princess Sayako will report her engagement to other members of her family and receive their congratulations.
The heads of three branches of government, senior agency officials and others will also visit and congratulate the princess.
In the afternoon, Kuroda and his mother Sumiko, 69, will visit the Imperial Residence for a meeting with Emperor Akihito, Empress Michiko and the princess. Kuroda's father is deceased.
The princess, the youngest of three children of the emperor and empress, is the last to marry.
She has to relinquish her royal title following her marriage with Kuroda in accordance with Imperial House Law, which stipulates that a female member has to leave the imperial household if she marries a commoner.
It is the first time in 46 years that a female member of an emperor's immediate family has wed.
The princess and Kuroda have known each other for a long time. He is a childhood friend of Prince Akishino, the younger of her two brothers.
Kuroda and Prince Akishino have been close friends since their elementary school days at Gakushuin Primary School in Tokyo.
The prince is said to have played a part in bringing his best friend and sister together.
The couple met again in January 2003 after a long interval. They decided to marry last summer, according to sources close to the imperial family.
In 1960, Princess Takako, the fifth daughter of the late Emperor Hirohito, posthumously known as Emperor Showa, left the household through marriage.
When a female imperial family member becomes a commoner by marriage, she receives a lump sum of up to 150 million yen under the law. Princess Takako, who was popularly called Princess Suga, received 15 million yen.
Princess Sayako was born on April 18, 1969, and graduated from Gakushuin University, an institution that has been educating many members of the royal family, in 1992 with a bachelor's degree in Japanese language and literature.
The princess works at the Yamashina Institute for Ornithology in Chiba Prefecture as a researcher. She has been involved in research on kingfishers there.
The couple are expected to continue their respective careers after their marriage.
Kuroda belonged to Gakushuin University's nature and culture study club, which was headed by Prince Akishino, whose wife, Princess Kiko, was also a member of the club.
After his graduation in law in 1988, Kuroda joined Mitsui Bank, one of the predecessors of what is now Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp.
In April 1997, he joined the Tokyo metropolitan government and now works in the construction department.
Kuroda lives with his mother in Tokyo. His father, who worked for Toyota Motor Corp., died in 1986.
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Princess Sayako, Emperor Akihito's only daughter, was formally engaged to Yoshiki Kuroda, an employee with the Tokyo metropolitan government, in a traditional rite of betrothal at the Imperial Palace on Saturday. The princess, 35, popularly known as Princess Nori, and Kuroda, 39, are expected to be married sometime after the summer following a series of court rites, according to the Imperial Household Agency.
The special rite, called "Nosai no Gi" in Japanese, is the first in the series. In the privately held ceremony at the Imperial Residence, a messenger from Kuroda formally conveyed Kuroda's proposal to marry Princess Sayako and offered traditional engagement gifts of two fresh sea breams, three bottles of sake and two sets of silk, the agency said. Sea breams are given as gifts in Japan to mark auspicious events.
The couple became formally engaged when Grand Steward Toshio Yuasa of the Imperial Household told the messenger that the princess and her parents accepted the offer of marriage.
Kuroda's cousin, Naoyuki, 53, took the role as messenger.
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The imperial family will also send its messenger to Kuroda's home in Tokyo
bearing another set of gifts, including two fresh sea breams, three bottles of sake and two sets of wool, while Princess Sayako will report her engagement to other members of her family and receive their congratulations.
The heads of three branches of government, senior agency officials and others will also visit and congratulate the princess.
In the afternoon, Kuroda and his mother Sumiko, 69, will visit the Imperial Residence for a meeting with Emperor Akihito, Empress Michiko and the princess. Kuroda's father is deceased.
The princess, the youngest of three children of the emperor and empress, is the last to marry.
She has to relinquish her royal title following her marriage with Kuroda in accordance with Imperial House Law, which stipulates that a female member has to leave the imperial household if she marries a commoner.
It is the first time in 46 years that a female member of an emperor's immediate family has wed.
The princess and Kuroda have known each other for a long time. He is a childhood friend of Prince Akishino, the younger of her two brothers.
Kuroda and Prince Akishino have been close friends since their elementary school days at Gakushuin Primary School in Tokyo.
The prince is said to have played a part in bringing his best friend and sister together.
The couple met again in January 2003 after a long interval. They decided to marry last summer, according to sources close to the imperial family.
In 1960, Princess Takako, the fifth daughter of the late Emperor Hirohito, posthumously known as Emperor Showa, left the household through marriage.
When a female imperial family member becomes a commoner by marriage, she receives a lump sum of up to 150 million yen under the law. Princess Takako, who was popularly called Princess Suga, received 15 million yen.
Princess Sayako was born on April 18, 1969, and graduated from Gakushuin University, an institution that has been educating many members of the royal family, in 1992 with a bachelor's degree in Japanese language and literature.
The princess works at the Yamashina Institute for Ornithology in Chiba Prefecture as a researcher. She has been involved in research on kingfishers there.
The couple are expected to continue their respective careers after their marriage.
Kuroda belonged to Gakushuin University's nature and culture study club, which was headed by Prince Akishino, whose wife, Princess Kiko, was also a member of the club.
After his graduation in law in 1988, Kuroda joined Mitsui Bank, one of the predecessors of what is now Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp.
In April 1997, he joined the Tokyo metropolitan government and now works in the construction department.
Kuroda lives with his mother in Tokyo. His father, who worked for Toyota Motor Corp., died in 1986.
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NAGAKUTE, JAPAN: Accompanied by Empress Michiko (R) and Crown Prince Naruhito (behind empress), Japanese Emperor Akihito (2nd R/with glasses) receives an explanation from Professor Naoki Suzuki about the head and tusks of a mammoth, which was excavated from the frozen ground of Siberia, at a pavilion of the World Expo 2005 in Nagakute, central Japan, 23 March 2005. The six-month world exhibition will be opened to the public from 25 March. POOL AFP - AFP PHOTO/Toru YAMANAKA (Photo credit should read TORU YAMANAKA/AFP/Getty Images)
NAGAKUTE, JAPAN: Accompanied by Empress Michiko (R) and Crown Prince Naruhito (behind empress), Japanese Emperor Akihito (2nd R/with glasses) receives an explanation from Professor Naoki Suzuki about the head and tusks of a mammoth, which was excavated from the frozen ground of Siberia, at a pavilion of the World Expo 2005 in Nagakute, central Japan, 23 March 2005. The six-month world exhibition will be opened to the public from 25 March. POOL AFP - AFP PHOTO/Toru YAMANAKA (Photo credit should read TORU YAMANAKA/AFP/Getty Images)
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NAGAKUTE, JAPAN: Accompanied by Empress Michiko (top) and Crown Prince Naruhito (bottom), Japanese Emperor Akihito (C) greets to people upon his arrival at the Expo Dome for the opening ceremony of the 2005 World Exposition in Nagakute, central Japan, 24 March 2005. The six-month world exhibition will be opened to the public from 25 March. AFP PHOTO/Toru YAMANAKA (Photo credit should read TORU YAMANAKA/AFP/Getty Images)
NAGAKUTE, JAPAN: Accompanied by Empress Michiko (top) and Crown Prince Naruhito (bottom), Japanese Emperor Akihito (C) greets to people upon his arrival at the Expo Dome for the opening ceremony of the 2005 World Exposition in Nagakute, central Japan, 24 March 2005. The six-month world exhibition will be opened to the public from 25 March. AFP PHOTO/Toru YAMANAKA (Photo credit should read TORU YAMANAKA/AFP/Getty Images)
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Is Masako really too ill to attend the exhibition or was it the Imperial Household Agency's decision that she not attend? I don't trust the IHA to act in Masako's best interest.
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Beautiful photos!Thank you everybody lots!
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But i think the Japanese Royals are always have the same style of hats.Especially Empress Michiko,although she has great amount of hat but all the same style only different colours!They do not have many different styles of hats like the Western.
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MASAKO ABSENT FROM IMPERILA VISIT TO WORLD EXPO!
24 MARCH 2005
http://www.hellomagazine.com/royalty/2005/03/24/japanexpo/#enviarIt was a family outing for the Japanese royals on Wednesday when they attended the opening of the 21st century's first World Exposition in the country's industrial heartland.
Empress Michiko – who has been recently indisposed - accompanied her husband Emperor Akihito to the event. However, although Crown Prince Naruhito joined his parents, his wife, Princess Masako, who has been suffering a stress related illness for over a year, was once again absent.
At the opening, the imperial guests were treated to a concert performed by both human and robotic musicians. Indeed, robots play a key role at the Expo, acting in roles as diverse as intelligent road sweepers to security guards programmed to detect intruders.
Easily the star attraction, however, is the uncannily human Actroid. Resembling a 20-something woman, the robot acts as an information service, answering questions in four languages - Japanese, English, Korean and Chinese.
The imperial family also introduced to a much older participant, an 18,000-year-old mammoth, the frozen remains of which were discovered in Siberia, and which is billed as the most successful attempt yet to excavate and display almost the full animal.
The Nagakute World Expo, which traces its roots to the 1851 Great Exhibition in London and features displays by 121 countries showing the link between technology and the environment, will run for six-months and is expected to draw 15 million visitors.
24 MARCH 2005
http://www.hellomagazine.com/royalty/2005/03/24/japanexpo/#enviarIt was a family outing for the Japanese royals on Wednesday when they attended the opening of the 21st century's first World Exposition in the country's industrial heartland.
Empress Michiko – who has been recently indisposed - accompanied her husband Emperor Akihito to the event. However, although Crown Prince Naruhito joined his parents, his wife, Princess Masako, who has been suffering a stress related illness for over a year, was once again absent.
At the opening, the imperial guests were treated to a concert performed by both human and robotic musicians. Indeed, robots play a key role at the Expo, acting in roles as diverse as intelligent road sweepers to security guards programmed to detect intruders.
Easily the star attraction, however, is the uncannily human Actroid. Resembling a 20-something woman, the robot acts as an information service, answering questions in four languages - Japanese, English, Korean and Chinese.
The imperial family also introduced to a much older participant, an 18,000-year-old mammoth, the frozen remains of which were discovered in Siberia, and which is billed as the most successful attempt yet to excavate and display almost the full animal.
The Nagakute World Expo, which traces its roots to the 1851 Great Exhibition in London and features displays by 121 countries showing the link between technology and the environment, will run for six-months and is expected to draw 15 million visitors.
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New pictures and Princess Sayako's old pictures
1.Princess Hisako with Brad Pitt at the premiere show of "Oceans12".(Jan, 2005)
2.Little princess Sayako with her mother,Crown Princess Michiko(now Empress)(Oct, 1969)
3.Princess Sayako(Feb,1970)
4.Imperial Family(Nov,1971)
5.Princess Sayako(1971)
6.Princess Sayako at the athletic meet in kindergarten(oct,1974)
7.Princess Sayako(1977)
8.1979
9.May,1984
1.Princess Hisako with Brad Pitt at the premiere show of "Oceans12".(Jan, 2005)
2.Little princess Sayako with her mother,Crown Princess Michiko(now Empress)(Oct, 1969)
3.Princess Sayako(Feb,1970)
4.Imperial Family(Nov,1971)
5.Princess Sayako(1971)
6.Princess Sayako at the athletic meet in kindergarten(oct,1974)
7.Princess Sayako(1977)
8.1979
9.May,1984
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1~3.Crown Prince Naruhito and Crown Princess Masako attended the ceremony which was held 100days after the death of Princess Kikuko Takamatsu.(2005-3-27)
3~6.Prince and Princess Akishino and thier daughters,Princess Mako and Princess Kako visited the exhibition concerning the sericulture that Empress Michiko did.(2005-3-22)
http://www.kunaicho.go.jp/11/special-list.html
3~6.Prince and Princess Akishino and thier daughters,Princess Mako and Princess Kako visited the exhibition concerning the sericulture that Empress Michiko did.(2005-3-22)
http://www.kunaicho.go.jp/11/special-list.html
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Pictures in the imperial farm during their visit at Takanezawa town, north of Tokyo, on Tuesday afternoon, March 29, 2005
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I haven't checked up on the JApanese royal family for a while, I was just wondering if Princess Masako is well and fine again? She looks good in the pictures attending Princess Sayako's engagement ceremony! ^__^
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Great!!!!Thanks so much for photos.
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Emperor, empress to visit Norway, Ireland in May
(Kyodo) _ Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko will visit Ireland and Norway next month, accompanied by an entourage led by former Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori, the government said Tuesday.
The emperor and empress will leave Tokyo on May 7 and arrive in Dublin later that day. They will arrive in Oslo on May 10 and visit Norway's first capital of Trondheim. The couple are scheduled to return to Japan on May 14.
Norwegian Crown Prince Haakon Magnus will formally welcome the imperial couple on behalf of King Harald V who recently underwent heart surgery. The prince visited the Aichi Expo on Monday and said he is looking forward to meeting Emperor Akihito and Express Michiko in Norway.
Japan and Norway are marking the centennial of diplomatic relations this year. Irish President Mary McAleese visited Japan and met with the emperor and empress last month.
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(Kyodo) _ Emperor Akihito and Empress Michiko will visit Ireland and Norway next month, accompanied by an entourage led by former Prime Minister Yoshiro Mori, the government said Tuesday.
The emperor and empress will leave Tokyo on May 7 and arrive in Dublin later that day. They will arrive in Oslo on May 10 and visit Norway's first capital of Trondheim. The couple are scheduled to return to Japan on May 14.
Norwegian Crown Prince Haakon Magnus will formally welcome the imperial couple on behalf of King Harald V who recently underwent heart surgery. The prince visited the Aichi Expo on Monday and said he is looking forward to meeting Emperor Akihito and Express Michiko in Norway.
Japan and Norway are marking the centennial of diplomatic relations this year. Irish President Mary McAleese visited Japan and met with the emperor and empress last month.
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